The Russo-Japanese War removed immediate Russian pressure from Sweden's eastern approaches. Sweden could therefore move its fleet to the west coast during the 1905 union crisis with Norway. A war at that moment would have caught Norway at a particularly unfavorable time. A distant naval war had changed another state's freedom of action in its own region.
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How the Russo-Japanese War shaped Sweden's 1905 fleet posture
Russia's war in East Asia gave Sweden room to shift its fleet west during the crisis that ended its union with Norway.